A Hot Press production, Up Close and Personal is a series of live events and programmes in which artists talk about their own classic Irish albums. The first six broadcasts feature interviews and performances from Gemma Hayes (Night On My Side, 2002), Mary Coughlan (Tired and Emotional, 1985), Damien Dempsey (Seize The Day, 2003), Tim Wheeler of Ash (1977, 1996) Conor O’Brien of Villagers (Awayland, 2013) and Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny (Planxty, 1973).
The series is produced in association with Aidan Shortall of Up Close and Personal Promotions and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. The public interviews took place at The Grand Social, Dublin in the winter of 2021. The first broadcast in the series features Gemma Hayes being interviewed by Hot Press writer Lucy O’Toole and performing four songs from the album...
• Gemma Hayes was born in 1977 and grew up in Ballyporeen, in Co.Tipperary, Ireland. She emerged during the singer-songwriter boom in Ireland at the turn of the Millennium, but always insisted on following a distinctive, singular path. Her debut album Night On My Side was released in 2002 on the Source Records label, a subsidiary of Virgin. The album was produced by Gemma herself, Dave Fridmann and David Odlum. It reached No. 8 in Ireland and No. 52 in the UK. Gemma won Best Female Artist at the Hot Press Awards 2002. The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize 2002, alongside David Bowie (Heathen), The Streets (Original Pirate Material), The Coral (The Coral), Doves (The Last Broadcast) and the eventual winner, Ms. Dynamite (A Little Deeper).
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